Public anger is mounting as residents and neighbors demand answers for how the blaze early Wednesday spread so quickly and trapped so numerous tower's 600-odd residents. "The people are waking up to the right wing mainstream media and May just doesn't get the public mood".
The latest figure included the 30 already confirmed to have died in the devastating fire on Wednesday.
Residents had long said negligence on the part of the building's owners had created unsafe and potentially deadly conditions. "And therefore, sadly, I have to assume that they are dead", he said. But multiple residents told CNN they did not hear fire alarms when the blaze broke out and many survivors said the fire spread quickly with little warning.
Fire tore through the Grenfell Tower in north Kensington in the early hours of Wednesday morning, killing at least 17 with many others missing. He asked anyone who was in the tower and survived to contact police immediately.
May, who on Thursday met emergency services at the fire site but did not meet locals, visited residents, volunteers and community leaders at a nearby church on Friday and was rushed away afterwards by police as an angry crowd outside shouted "Coward" and "You're not wanted".
The PM said people "deserve answers" as to why the fire spread so rapidly and that the inquiry "will give them".
"I cannot begin to put myself in the shoes of those families affected and I can entirely understand their frustration at not knowing if their loved ones are amongst those who have died", Cundy said.
The identification of the victims is proving very hard - which experts attribute to the extreme heat of the fire.
"We also stand ready to respond to any new advice from London Fire Brigade that may emerge from the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower".
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"They are simply not recognisable because of the fire", Fiona McCormack, from the Metropolitan Police's identification team, said of the victims found inside Grenfell Tower. This relies on dental records, fingerprints and DNA when possible and also features like tattoos or scars.
The tragedy cast a pall on the Trooping the Color festivities that mark the official birthday of Queen Elizabeth II.
She is understood to have been accompanied by her husband, Simon Konecki.
"Any attack on emergency services performance is outrageous politicking by Labour", he said.
SKY NEWS Theresa May faced tough questions over her Government's handling of the blaze. London has a chronic housing shortage even in the best of times, and people fear being forced out of the city.
Demonstrators pushed their way through an automatic door shouting 'We want justice!' and 'Killers!' as they clashed with security guards in the lobby.
May has been criticised from within her own Conservative Party over her response and she pledged on Thursday to hold a public inquiry into the fire at the social housing block which was home to about 600 people.
"We are in the richest borough in the United Kingdom and in this very borough we have a building where some of the poorest live and the safety measures are totally inadequate", said Mustafa Al Mansur, one of the organisers of the demonstration. British officials have ordered a review of other buildings that have had similar renovations.
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